Tian Zeming, the only known survivor so far of Sunday's huge landslide in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, was recovering on Thursday after three hours of surgery, but 75 people were still missing.

Zhu Tingfeng, deputy secretary-general of Shenzhen, said that 59 of the 75 were determined to be missing after family members contacted authorities.

Seventeen people, aged from 7 to 78, were injured in the disaster. Two of them have recovered and left the hospital, officials said. The landslide directly affected 4,630 people and 99 companies.